Joe Don Baker

Biography

Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 - May 7, 2025) was an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, and CIA agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.

Known For

Mars Attacks!

Year

1996

Type

Movie

GoldenEye

Year

1995

Type

Movie

Cape Fear

Year

1991

Type

Movie

Tomorrow Never Dies

Year

1997

Type

Movie

Mud

Year

2013

Type

Movie

The Living Daylights

Year

1987

Type

Movie

Cool Hand Luke

Year

1967

Type

Movie

The Dukes of Hazzard

Year

2005

Type

Movie

Congo

Year

1995

Type

Movie

Reality Bites

Year

1994

Type

Movie

Joe Dirt

Year

2001

Type

Movie

Fletch

Year

1985

Type

Movie

The Natural

Year

1984

Type

Movie

Bonanza

Year

1959

Type

TV Show

The Distinguished Gentleman

Year

1992

Type

Movie

Mission: Impossible

Year

1966

Type

TV Show

Charley Varrick

Year

1973

Type

Movie

Strange Wilderness

Year

2008

Type

Movie

Walking Tall

Year

1973

Type

Movie

Criminal Law

Year

1989

Type

Movie

Junior Bonner

Year

1972

Type

Movie

The Valachi Papers

Year

1972

Type

Movie

Gunsmoke

Year

1955

Type

TV Show

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Year

1969

Type

Movie

The Underneath

Year

1995

Type

Movie

The Outfit

Year

1973

Type

Movie

Joysticks

Year

1983

Type

Movie

Leonard Part 6

Year

1987

Type

Movie

Ironside

Year

1967

Type

TV Show

The Big Valley

Year

1965

Type

TV Show